David Koepp Takes on Pair of Projects for Columbia Pictures

Variety reports that David Koepp has signed on to a pair of projects for Columbia Pictures. Koepp will first direct Billionaire’s Vinegar based on the Benjamin Wallace book about a scandal that erupted when an auctioned cache of wine purported to have been culled from the stocks of Thomas Jefferson were deemed fakes by some.

He will then adapt a screenplay from the Charles McCarry novel Shelley’s Heart, about a political drama called Article II that he’ll also direct. The film is about two friends who become bitter rivals for the presidential election, which is won by computer fraud.